Mystimus

aka Mystimus

My least favorite episode of LOST the first time around
was Tricia Tanaka is Dead. Something about an entire episode
devoted to Hurley starting up an old van left me wondering if the
writers had lost their way.

I have avoided that episode since it originally aired.

I'm in the middle of my first official re-watch of the entire
series, though, and this unwanted episode arrived full force. I
decided to keep an open mind and see if maybe I missed something
the first time around. Boy, did I. At least I think I did. You tell
me.

The van that Hurley finds is a Volkswagen Type 2, also known in
Australia and other parts of the world as a Kombi (short for
combination).

The purpose of this episode is for us to witness Hurley
traveling in a friend-out Kombi.

Some painstaking work went into this incredibly cool
issue. (There are things occurring within these pages that are not
apparent at first or second glance. That's the only hint I will
give you.) I urge you to dig. Give in to the unknown for a
while and ponder the mystery. It's worth it. - J.J.
Abrams

So begins the lead story in Wired Magazine's May, 2009
issue. If you follow Abrams' advice and dig, your search
will not be fruitless...

Below the surface of the May issue lurk 15 puzzles,
all of which combine into a giant metapuzzle, created for Wired by
Lone Shark Games....The metapuzzle was designed to be completely
invisible to the casual reader.

This issue of Wired is a mini-version of LOST. Our
favorite television show, too, is a metapuzzle - design…

The logo for Oceanic Airlines uses a series of concentric circles
for the O in Oceanic. The outermost circle is a
series of dots - sixteen dots to be exact.

The concentric circles form an eye - an open eye. They are the
same open eye that we see in most episodes of LOST. We often
see a close-up of a character's eye, typically in an episode that
is central to that character. The opening of the eye represents
something deeply intriguing in and of itself, but that is another
story.

The outermost ring of the logo is a series of sixteen dots. They
are the same color as the larger dot that serves as the pupil for
the eye. What does this mean?

In LOST: The Complete Sixth and Final Season: Extras
there is a segment entitled The Hero's Journey. In this segm…

Sometimes I feel like Locke - flat on my back and staring for
the first time at the blast door map. Its words and symbols create
so many questions, punctuated with an actual question mark in the
very center.

If I were to create my own blast door map of the things that
still make my head spin, the questions below are the things I would
write on it. These are typically questions I have not ever seen
asked - or longstanding questions that just seem to have no
satisfying answers. I would love to hear your own theories. And I
will entertain new questions.

This is a work in progress. Much, much more to come...

In Tabula Rasa, there are four distinct scenes where different
characters are holding something in their mouths.